A New York District Court dismissed the complaint of Anna Wurtzburger against fast food staple KFC over the size of KFC’s $20 “fill up” bucket. Wurtzburger alleged she purchased KFC’s “fill up” bucket meal advertised as consisting of “an eight piece bucket of chicken,” relying on the advertisement’s depiction of a bucket that may have
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U.S. Customs Determines Coffee Bean Country of Origin is Where Roasted
By Andrew Levad & Jason Gordon on
Last month, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (“CBP”) published its final determination that the country where raw green coffee beans are roasted—not necessarily grown—is their country of origin for the purpose of government procurement. It based this decision on the grounds that roasting raw green coffee beans renders them “substantially transformed” into a new…
Cracking Open a Cold One: Plaintiffs’ False Advertising Suit Against Brewer Survives Dismissal
By Andrew Levad & Jason Gordon on
Earlier this year, two plaintiffs launched a putative class action against Portland-based Craft Brew Alliance, the fifth largest brewing company in the U.S. and parent company of Kona Brewing Co. Craft Brew acquired Kona in 2010, emblazoning its bottles and cans with images and text that conjure Hawaii’s scenery and lifestyle. There’s just one issue: …